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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Oh please. I've noticed lately that there are men dying in Iraq who leave behind one or more kids and a "fiancee". That must be because they are waiting for that big, elaborate wedding when they get home. Or something.
There is a disturbing trend against marriage in this society. I firmly believe it has to do with our economy and the fear that long-term relationships are going to be tedious with multiple jobs and economic hopelessness.
Or perhaps women are letting men get away with irresponsibility? No, I think it is that they have nothing economically at stake together.
The abortion part of the equation is simply part and parcel of the same picture. I agree that even with a college education, a young woman might opt for it, feeling her prospects are slim to none with a child in tow. After all, child care is paid about as well as many a job she could have. It would take all of her pay.
I feel there is a drift going on. Maybe shotgun marriages in Alaska are more healthy. I just don't know. Or maybe the Palin family is thinking they are going to strike it rich in politics. Stranger things have happened, but it isn't a course available to most of us.
I have three children. The last two were born in wedlock. I don't know where the first one is. I never considered an abortion.
Well, yeah, seeing as it's the capital of the country and that's where most of the insurgent activity took place.
Does this mean the rest of the country, all 438,310+ km of it, is all pacified and safe for either Kurd, Shite and Sunni to live in side-by-side?
Here are the ads we need to see:
Harry Reid saying, "The war is lost."
Obama saying the surge would fail.
Various other Dems saying similar things ...
The war was won back in 2003, the Surge did fail in its primary goal of fostering political reconciliation, and the Democrats have been right in distrusting the Administration's claims.
All while showing US troops handing over Anbar to the Iraqi army, of captured documents from al Qaeada in Iraq begging for help from Osama because they were being crushed by the Americans, of Iraqis with purple fingers after voting ...
All of which is years in the past. Iraq today exists only in wikipedia and as a geographical reference; there is no central authority and no sense of actual nationhood.
And then ending the ad with, "These are the defeatists you want to lead us in a time where Islamic terrorists have sworn to kill all Americans?" -- T. Suarez
Oh, I see now. We have to kill "them" over there, invade other and destroy countries that hadn't attacks us, so they won't come over here...even though our doing the former incites "them to do the latter.
And please, don't bring up that document dump from years back. Its insulting.
@ NoBBy
Sarah Palin, a woman, obviously doesn't let others define who she
is. She demonstrated that last night.
Rrrrriiiggghhtt. She gets to decide all by herself who she is, and you'll squeal like a stuck pigs if anyone dares to disagree... or as they did in Minneapolis, arrest anyone who has the temerity to do so. -- Arne Langsetmo
That really is the crux of it with regards to her fervent rightie whitie defenders. They're going for the self-righteous high dudgeon play like it was a Hail Mary pass in the 4th quarter with less than thirty seconds left on the clock.
but NOB's observation is not invalid --- Sarah Palin would agree with it. She is the sort of very Parfait Republican Ladie who has defined herself with respect to the main chance all her well-cosseted life. Oh,I know.... she's not Cindy McCain. Out where we are from she doesn't have to be to be livin' pretty well.
When my husband and I lived in Battle Mountain, Nevada (AKA "Armpit of America") we were at the top of the local food chain on ~$70,000 combined per annum. That was ten years ago, and even then that sum just barely made one middle class in the TriState area.
The dirty secret in rural vs. urban tribal politics in America is that.... it's actually a damned sight harder to get ahead and make ends meet in our cities and inner suburbs than it is where land is cheap and the population is sparse.
And there are a whole lotta fine rural folks who think that differential is a sign of their inherent superiority, and greater "Americaness".
The Palin's of this country are damned vicious people, and all the Cabela's gear in the world can't hide it if you look at them fair and square.
How Obama presents that fact is another issue, however. The true urban/exurban elite who control the MSM have been throwing bones to the rural/small city elites for decades now.
Cargo: You'll get no argument from me.
Musings: That was a bit of irony in response to a dufus who was complain. Sorry, if you mistook it for an actual paen to the infanticide lobby. Also sorry to the infanticide lobby--please don't kill my baby.
Okay, so Sarah Palin is love bait. She was put out to make people fall for her (men in the Republican/ Independent category have fallen hard). Do the Democrats go there? Or do the Democrats strip the veil off the illusions of small town and country? Do the Democrats dare to ruin the sacred truths about this nation? -- musings
Unless I am misunderstanding you, I believe you are definitely on the right track. But what would make you believe that the Democrats want to "strip the veil?" They have just as much invested in keeping the myths/sacred truths alive. They are just as heavily culpable and complicit. It would be going against their nature and their strategy to strip the veil. They will only go so far in acknowledging the truth about Palin or about "the American way." What was Obama's reaction to Rev. Wrights commentary? He had the opportunity to begin the process of stripping the veil and he didn't. Neither of the two parties want to strip the veil. They don't want to be good governors, they want to rule. Do you see what I am getting at?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
